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The sad reality is we are all becoming enslaved by a war machine overwrought with bullshit wars for corporate profit. We are quickly becoming programmed to expect this and apathy towards murder and the slaughter of innocents is rampant.

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The sad reality is we are all becoming enslaved by a war machine overwrought with bullshit wars for corporate profit. We are quickly becoming programmed to expect this and apathy towards murder and the slaughter of innocents is rampant.

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Fixed that for ya, punk.

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Where can I get one? That is the coolest thing I've ever heard....Joking

The sad reality is we are all becoming enslaved by a welfare system overwrought with entitlements. We are quickly becoming programmed to expect this and apathy towards hard work and ingenuity is rampant. Why work hard when you can vote for a politician that will steal money from another man(or generation even) for you? Really, why? What is the endgame? Generation after generation sitting on the front porch drinking 40oz. beers is not good for any community.

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Where can I get one? That is the coolest thing I've ever heard....Joking

The sad reality is we are all becoming enslaved by a welfare system overwrought with entitlements. We are quickly becoming programmed to expect this and apathy towards hard work and ingenuity is rampant. Why work hard when you can vote for a politician that will steal money from another man(or generation even) for you? Really, why? What is the endgame? Generation after generation sitting on the front porch drinking 40oz. beers is not good for any community.

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Your mom seems to like it. Last I heard, she was taking on five to six guys at once, and she likes to give the biggest guys backdoor access, and all she wants in return is a couple crack rocks and five bucks.

I guess you couldn't really call her a slave, since she gets paid. And she really, really enjoys the work.

Your dad likes drinking forties on the front porch, doesn't he?

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Where can I get one? That is the coolest thing I've ever heard....Joking

The sad reality is we are all becoming enslaved by a welfare system overwrought with entitlements. We are quickly becoming programmed to expect this and apathy towards hard work and ingenuity is rampant. Why work hard when you can vote for a politician that will steal money from another man(or generation even) for you? Really, why? What is the endgame? Generation after generation sitting on the front porch drinking 40oz. beers is not good for any community.

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Your mom seems to like it. Last I heard, she was taking on five to six guys at once, and she likes to give the biggest guys backdoor access, and all she wants in return is a couple crack rocks and five bucks.

I guess you couldn't really call her a slave, since she gets paid. And she really, really enjoys the work.

Your dad likes drinking forties on the front porch, doesn't he?

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My parents are dead genius....

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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,

I favor an ignore feature. I'd also favor a thread moderator feature. Where each thread creator could moderate his own thread. Kind of like making each thread a house where you could decide on the decorum.

People who host well-managed threads would probably get the best discussions going on. Threadmakers would soon gain reputations for their fairness or lack thereof. People serious about intelligent debate and learning would congregate into threads they feel are open and safe.

It's my dream.

--Anthony



"On this matter, make no mistake. I want you to go fuck yourself long and hard, as well as anyone who agrees with you. I got no use for you." --Auraptor

"This vile and revolting malice - this is their true colors, always has been, you're just seeing it without the mask of justifications and excuses they hide it behind, is all. Make sure to remember it once they put the mask back on." --Fremdfirma

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I actually LIKE the fact that you CAN'T

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

Kane, the truth of it is more complicated than that, cause the war machine costs more, for no return - and one of the main problems with assistance to the poor is that it's set up to be only just barely NOT enough, enough to string them along, keep em hopin, but never actually enough to climb out of the hole, thus ever dependant on the state which is also encouraging them to feed those kids to the war machine when they get old enough.

That's bullshit - I say we cut off the war machine and get those people on their feet with the extra dosh it'd require, and yes, there'd be a couple slackers and draggers but dude, collective punishment is always a tyrannical act, and MOST of those people would give up a lot to be done with the endless rounds of chain yanking and humiliation they have to put up with to get that assistance - why you think our golden rope program works ?

Cause mosta those folk would jump on any opportunity to break the endless cycle of privation, desperation and humiliation that is trying to survive on that assistance, even the most beaten down of people still got a little pride somewhere - in your efforts to dehumanize folks you should pity, you seem to have forgotten that.

HOW we "help" them is if anything, crueler than not helping them at all, and if they weren't taxed into poverty to feed the war machine they'd not need it so much in the first damn place.

So, dismantle the war machine, and use the money to FIX this shit, it's really not simpler than that - stuff like Mikey's marshall plan, we *could* make this country everything it pretends to be, but first, the war machine, and all it's alphabet-soup hangers-on, they gotta go.

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"Dont you mean... "People with opposing views... and without the formality to discuss them in a PC manner... gone"?"

Hello,

No. Injecting comments about Niki's hair maintenance into a political discussion isn't an opposing view. It's just vulgar and rude.

Also, I don't hang out with people who are routinely insulting and vulgar in my real life. You clearly do. You're Free to Choose. So am I.

In real life, I can walk away from the man on the street corner who is shouting insults, and continue to have a civil conversation with people who I choose to interact with.

Now we have a technology allows that same scenario in virtual space.

The vile and revolting person loses their power to be heard. It's possible that some level of civility in discourse may become necessary to interact with the majority of society. Social pressure forces change for anyone who wants to deal with folks outside their pig pen, folks who prefer not to revel in the manure.

Deal with that.

--Anthony



"On this matter, make no mistake. I want you to go fuck yourself long and hard, as well as anyone who agrees with you. I got no use for you." --Auraptor

"This vile and revolting malice - this is their true colors, always has been, you're just seeing it without the mask of justifications and excuses they hide it behind, is all. Make sure to remember it once they put the mask back on." --Fremdfirma

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Kaneman for Moderator.

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I have been here longer than you.

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I have been here longer than you.

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Hello Mike,

The astonishing thing is that these people are somehow insulted that someone may want to ignore them. Why should they care if their hateful rants no longer appear on my screen? Am I really their target audience? I can't believe that I am.

--Anthony


"On this matter, make no mistake. I want you to go fuck yourself long and hard, as well as anyone who agrees with you. I got no use for you." --Auraptor

"This vile and revolting malice - this is their true colors, always has been, you're just seeing it without the mask of justifications and excuses they hide it behind, is all. Make sure to remember it once they put the mask back on." --Fremdfirma

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Are you seriously trying to pull the sound-byte b.s. on ME? OF all people?

You know, where people trying to paint a bad image of someone with splice (or not include) the entirety of a statement?

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